2007 Honda Pilot

The 2007 Honda Pilot has 7 recalls, all involving the frontal airbags, with the most serious being a defect in both the driver and passenger airbag inflators that can cause a violent rupture, sending sharp metal fragments into the cabin and potentially killing or seriously injuring occupants.

All seven recalls center on the front airbag system. The core issue, covered across multiple filings, is that the driver-side and passenger-side frontal airbag inflators can explode rather than deploy normally when triggered in a crash. Instead of inflating the bag smoothly, a ruptured inflator can scatter metal shrapnel throughout the front of the cabin, reaching not just the driver and front passenger but potentially rear seat occupants as well. This defect is among the most consequential in the history of automotive recalls, and prior repair attempts on some vehicles did not fully resolve the issue, which is why multiple campaigns exist for what is fundamentally the same problem.

There is also a related concern for vehicles where the front passenger airbag was replaced at some point: if that replacement bag was installed incorrectly, it may not deploy properly in a crash, reducing protection for the front passenger and raising the risk of injury in a collision that would otherwise be survivable. Owners of this vehicle who are unsure whether prior airbag work was performed, or whether any of the inflator replacements have been completed, should check their VIN against the open recall records, as not all affected vehicles will have received the remedy.